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Congratulations to Srikant for getting into the <a href="http://gs.emory.edu/sites/best/index.html"> BEST </a> program! <br>

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--Candace was awarded the Women in Chemistry travel award for the [http://www.biophysics.org/2013meeting/Main/tabid/3523/Default.aspx Biophysical Society's Annual Meeting] in Philadelphia next February. Congratulations!

--Christine was part of a multidisciplinary panel on science, ethics, and medicine. The panel, [http://gatech.edu/calendar/event.html?nid=157681 HeLa @ Tech: Faculty Panel on Science, Ethics, and Medicine], explored a variety of topics related to the ethical responsibilities of researchers.

--We celebrated Jairo's graduation and wished him well as he leaves the lab and moves to Austin. Goodbye, Jairo!

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--Midtown Book Club visits the lab as part of their discussion of "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks." To see more, check out our [http://openwetware.org/wiki/Payne_Lab:Outreach#Midtown_Book_Club_Visits_the_Payne_Lab outreach page]!

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--Christine's DARPA award and the Payne Lab are featured in a GT Sciences [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mn2bPYaJf9Y/ Video].

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--Steve Hira has joined the Payne Lab as a postdoc. Welcome Steve!<br>

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--The Payne Lab's research on single particle tracking of vesicles is featured in the Emerging Investigator issue of the [http://blogs.rsc.org/an/2011/08/09/emerging-investigators-issue-now-online/ Analyst].

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<br> - '''Khalilah Reddie,''' our colaborator from the Murthy lab at Georgia Tech, will also be presenting her poster on Monday, August 29th from 12-1pm, '''"Aromatic Thiols: A New Family of Probes for Reversible Ratiometric Imaging of Thiols and Disulfides in Living Cells"''' (Convention Center, Rooms 406/407).

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-Christine received a [http://www.darpa.mil/Opportunities/Universities/Young_Faculty.aspx DARPA Young Faculty Award].

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-Congratulations to Hursh on his President's Undergraduate Research Award (PURA) for Fall 2011!

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-Congratulations to Chip who now has a "real job" at B&B Microscopes in Pittsburgh!

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-Jairo passed his Naturalization Examination to become an American citizen!<br>

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-The annual Payne-Brown-Curtis Lab Christmas Party was a great success.<br>

-Chip presented a poster at [http://chemistry.gsu.edu/ACS/misc/AI_Forum2010_Announce.pdf the Second Academia/Industry Forum] at Kennesaw State University. This was sponsored by the Georgia Section of the American Chemical Society and Kennesaw State University.<br>

-Congratulations to Candace on being named a [http://www.chemistry.gatech.edu/research/biophysics/ Molecular Biophysics] trainee!

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<b>December 6</b> - Chelsea graduates from Tech this December. We had a party to celebrate and wished her all the best in her job search. Congrats, Chelsea!<br>

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<p>October and November will include a total of 7 Payne Lab talks and 2 posters at Georgia Tech, the regional ACS meeting (SERMACS), and a Nanomaterials conference in Mexico. Come see what's new...<br>

<b>November 14</b> - Christine talks about the PEDOT:PSS project at the SERMACS meeting in Atlanta. Josh will present a poster at <a href="http://sermacs2013.org/"> SERMACS</a>, "Tuning bipolaron populations in PEDOT:PSS via biological catalysts" at 10 am in the Exhibit Hall at Loews hotel.<br>

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-At the Georgia Tech Holiday Party, Chip won a Chemmy for the "Best Actor Portraying Chip"! The Payne Lab submitted [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fm0Wj9un2OU this video] as part of the holiday activities.

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<b>November 15</b> - Alex and Emilie each present talks at the Nanomaterials conference in Mexico. Alex will discuss, "Nanoparticle-Cell Interactions: Impact of Serum Proteins on MRI Contrast Agents" and Emilie will present "Cellular Binding of Charged Nanoparticles as a Modulator of Membrane Potential."<br>

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<b>November 15</b> - Chelsea presents a poster, "Cellular binding of anionic gold nanoparticles as a function of surface modification," at SERMACS. Candace will give a talk on "Nanoparticle surface charge directs the cellular binding of nanoparticle-protein complexes" in the <a href="http://sermacs2013.org/symposia/"> El-Sayed birthday symposium</a> at 11am in Salon I.</p><br>

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-Chip was awarded a 2010 Student Travel Award from the Biophysical Society to attend [http://www.biophysics.org/Default.aspx?alias=www.biophysics.org/2010meeting the 54th Annual Meeting] in San Francisco, CA. <br>

-As part of National Chemistry Week, the Payne Lab was featured on Georgia Tech's radio station, WREK, as part of [http://www.insidetheblackbox.org Inside the Black Box's] program "Chemistry - It's Elemental".

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-Chip earned third place in the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry's Graduate Research Symposium with his oral presentation, “Late Endosomal Degradation of Low-Density Lipoprotein Probed with Two-Color Fluorescence Microscopy”.<br>

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-Congratulations to CKP for being named a recipient of the [http://nihroadmap.nih.gov/newinnovator/index.asp 2009 NIH Director’s Young Innovator award].

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-Jairo and Chip's proposal to the [http://www.undergradresearch.gatech.edu/ Georgia Tech Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program] was funded! This will provide funding for Jairo's automation of Chip's image analysis.

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-Kevin and Mindi gradutate! Mindi has completed her Masters and is looking forward to becoming a high school teacher. Kevin earned his B.S. in Chemistry and is looking to continue his education in a MD/PhD program.

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<p>Christine has been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure! We went out to a nice lunch to celebrate the good news and all the hard work put in over the past few years that have helped her make this important advancement in her career. CONGRATULATIONS, CHRISTINE!!</p>

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-Amy and Chip presented posters at the Biophysical Society Meeting in Boston, MA. Amy's poster was number B50 and is titled ''Non-Invasive Pyrenebutyrate-mediated Delivery of Quantum Dots to the Cytosol of Living Cells.'' Chip's poster was number B57 and is titled ''Probing the Intracellular Degradation of Low Density Lipoprotein Using Single Particle Tracking Fluorescence Microscopy.''

-Amy's paper "Pyrenebutyrate-Mediated Delivery of Quantum Dots across the Plasma Membrane of Living Cells" was published in the 113th volume of The Journal of Physical Chemistry B.

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<p> Nicole Thompson, our Faculty Support Coordinator, is getting a big promotion to work with the School of Physics! We had a surprise lunch for her and wished her the best of luck at her new position. Thanks for everything you've done for us Nicole- we're going to miss you!<br>

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-Mindi was named a Georgia Tech Molecular Biophysics Trainee for 2008-2009

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February

Emilie and Sabiha are traveling to Baltimore for the 59th Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society, February 6th- 11th:
--- Emilie will give a platform talk on "Using Nanoparticles to Control Cellular Membrane Potential" on Monday, February 9th at 8:30 AM in the Micro- and Nanotechnology Session in Room 316/317.
--- Sabiha will present her poster "Protein Corona and Secondary Structure in Response to Nanoparticle PEGylation" on Wednesday, February 11th from 11:30- 12:30 PM in the Biosurface Interactions session in Hall C.

November 14 - Christine talks about the PEDOT:PSS project at the SERMACS meeting in Atlanta. Josh will present a poster at SERMACS, "Tuning bipolaron populations in PEDOT:PSS via biological catalysts" at 10 am in the Exhibit Hall at Loews hotel.

November 15 - Alex and Emilie each present talks at the Nanomaterials conference in Mexico. Alex will discuss, "Nanoparticle-Cell Interactions: Impact of Serum Proteins on MRI Contrast Agents" and Emilie will present "Cellular Binding of Charged Nanoparticles as a Modulator of Membrane Potential."

November 15 - Chelsea presents a poster, "Cellular binding of anionic gold nanoparticles as a function of surface modification," at SERMACS. Candace will give a talk on "Nanoparticle surface charge directs the cellular binding of nanoparticle-protein complexes" in the El-Sayed birthday symposium at 11am in Salon I.

October

Welcome to our new undergrad, Edward Zhang!

September

Welcome to our newest grad student, Scott Thourson!

July

Welcome to our new postdoc, Srikant Iyer!

June

Welcome to Kerry McGill and Sabiha Runa, our new summer students!

May

Four new members joined the Payne group: two new postdocs, Alexandra Hill from Germany and Josh Morris from UT Austin, and two new undergrads, Chelsea Thompson and Kaitlyn Willingham. Welcome to the lab!

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March

Christine has been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure! We went out to a nice lunch to celebrate the good news and all the hard work put in over the past few years that have helped her make this important advancement in her career. CONGRATULATIONS, CHRISTINE!!

February

Nicole Thompson, our Faculty Support Coordinator, is getting a big promotion to work with the School of Physics! We had a surprise lunch for her and wished her the best of luck at her new position. Thanks for everything you've done for us Nicole- we're going to miss you!